Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!